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Quote: Originally posted by RogerGoff on 07/1/2015You can't feel unbalanced wheels on a caravan so why bother? But from an owners pov, of course they should be balanced, its pretty obvious that balanced wheels will cause less bearing wear.

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Quote: Originally posted by Hooray For Horace on 07/1/2015

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but because a puncture could easily cause the tyre to shred and smash up the wheel arch - surely, if Slime stops that it's worth adding???

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Quote: Originally posted by trog100 on 07/1/2015

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out of balance tyres cause problems at high speed.. good quality tyres should not be that far out of balance anyway..

as for the goo it will effectively seal a hole in the tread area of a tyre whilst the wheel is in motion and spinning.. it could (would) effectively prevent a tyre from going flat whilst running at high speed..

as for shredding and blow outs.. the cause.. a normal puncture with the tyre going down and the driver completely unaware until the increased heat causes it to fail and shred..

if your caravan tyre survive a puncture you will be very lucky.. mostly it will be run flat at speed for long enough to shred and be completely wrecked..

i am not saying use goo or dont use goo or have your tyres balanced or not.. goo may hide a puncture but that may be preferable to actually having one in the first place which you most certainly would have without the goo.. :)

goo is pretty effective an blocking holes up.. as long as the goo is in the right place.. when the van is stood the goo will not be in the right place and the tyre may slowly go down.. personally i think this is better than the tyre going down at speed which is the alternative..

it is water based pretty harmless stuff..

trog

   
     

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